From medical training during a civil war to starting Kentucky's first epilepsy fellowship program, Dr. Meriem Bensalem-Owen talks with Sharp Waves about her career journey.
In the latest issue out today, The Physiologist Magazine (TPM) explores the scientific relevance of the body mass index (BMI) tool for assessing health; examines the critical role allyship plays in expanding diversity in physiology; and profiles gastrointestinal physiologist Simon Hirota, PhD, an associate professor at the University of Calgary in Canada.
Team members facilitated FaceTime calls and provided comfort care for Nazli Ozkilic’s father, who was in long-term care due to congestive heart failure
A recent viral video showing a California ophthalmologist removing 23 contact lenses from an elderly patient’s eye has drawn attention to the importance of properly using contact lenses to ensure the health of your eyes.
At the University of Notre Dame, climate change researchers are bringing real-world solutions to communities worldwide, providing perspective on policy issues and encouraging shifts in human behavior to face that uncertainty with resilience.
An Arizona State University business professor examines how a new law in the United Kingdom deals with gender pay gap, and whether it can benefit the American workforce.
Haejin In, MD, MPH, MBA, FACS, FSSO, is chief diversity officer, associate director for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and surgical oncologist at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, shares the facts, the warning signs and concerns for the disease in Asian Americans.
According to the American Lung Association, Black Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans or Pacific Islanders and Indigenous people who are diagnosed with lung cancer face worse outcomes compared to white Americans because they are less likely to be diagnosed early. Rutgers Cancer Institute expert shares how these disparities are being addressed and where to find cancer screening resources.
According to the 2021-2023 edition of the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Facts and Figures for Hispanic/Latino People, about 6,000 Hispanic men and 5,800 Hispanic women are expected to be diagnosed with cancer of the lung and 3,200 Hispanic men and 2,300 Hispanic women are expected to die from the disease this year. Expert from Rutgers Cancer Institute shares what the Hispanic community needs to know about the disease.
Shafali Spurling Jeste, MD, shares early findings—and a critical challenge—from the Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials. How do you know if a treatment for autism is effective? That’s a question that has no easy answer—due in large part to the heterogeneous nature of autism spectrum disorder.
Bats play a crucial role in many types of ecosystems. Alison Robbins, V92, is assistant director for the Master's in Conservation Medicine (MCM) program and research assistant professor in the Department of Infectious Disease and Global Health at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University. She has been at Tufts for nearly 30 years and has been researching bats for 15 years.
Keeping your child safe and healthy is a multifaceted priority for families, starting with the ride home from the hospital in a properly installed car seat.
Antonio Iavarone, M.D., has made a decades-long commitment to finding better treatments for glioblastoma and other aggressive brain tumors. As the new deputy director of Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, he will have opportunities to do even more.
That thing prickling the hair on the back of your neck? Could it actually be good for you? A Penn State Health psychologist talks about whether there’s such a thing as a good scare.
In addition to a rise in school shootings, students, parents and teachers are dealing with another threat to the classroom: False shooting reports across the U.S. have become a recent trend in school safety.
عزيزتي مايو كلينك: أعاني من الشقيقة (الصداع النصفي) بشكل متقطع لمدة خمس سنوات تقريبًا. في الآونة الأخيرة، يبدو أن العلاج الفموي الذي أستخدمه أقل فعالية. بالرغم من أنني أعلم بوجود أدوية جديدة، فقد اقترحت عليَّ إحدى صديقاتي أن أجرب حُقن البوتوكس. حيث تُقسم أنه سيطر على الصداع المزمن لديها. ما مدى أمان هذه الحقن وكيف يعمل البوتوكس؟ ما هو جدول العلاج، وهل سأحتاج أيضًا إلى تناول أدوية أخرى للصداع؟
الإجابة: تمت الموافقة على توكسين أونابوتولينوم أ، أو البوتوكس، من قبل إدارة الغذاء والدواء الأمريكية في عام 2010 لعلاج الشقيقة (الصداع النصفي) المزمنة. ولكنه ليسَ علاجًا نهائيًا. عادةً ما يتلقى الأشخاص الذين يتلقون حقن البوتوكس للصداع العلاج كل ثلاثة أشهر تقريبًا.
ESTIMADA MAYO CLINIC: venho sofrendo com enxaquecas intermitentes há mais ou menos cinco anos. Recentemente, a terapia oral que venho usando parece não estar mais fazendo efeito. Apesar de saber que novos medicamentos estão disponíveis, uma amiga sugeriu que eu experimentasse injeções de Botox. Ela jura que as injeções deixaram seus níveis de dores de cabeça sob controle. Essas injeções são seguras e como o Botox funciona? Qual é o cronograma de tratamento e eu também precisaria tomar outros medicamentos para dor de cabeça?
RESPOSTA: a toxina Onabotulínica A, ou Botox, foi aprovada pela Food and Drug Administration (Administração de Alimentos e Medicamentos dos Estados Unidos) em 2010 para tratar enxaquecas. Não se trata de uma cura. As pessoas que recebem injeções de Botox para dores de cabeça geralmente recebem o tratamento mais ou menos a cada três meses.
ESTIMADA MAYO CLINIC: He sufrido migraña de forma intermitente durante aproximadamente cinco años. En el último tiempo, la terapia oral que he recibido pareciera ser menos eficaz. Si bien sé que existen medicamentos más nuevos, una amiga me sugirió que pruebe las inyecciones de bótox. Mi amiga jura que el bótox controló sus dolores de cabeza crónicos. ¿Cuán seguras son estas inyecciones? ¿Cómo funciona el bótox? ¿Cuál es el plan de tratamiento? ¿También tendría que tomar otro medicamento para el dolor de cabeza? RESPUESTA: La onabotulinumtoxina A, o el bótox, fue aprobada por la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos en el 2010 para el tratamiento de los dolores de cabeza por migraña crónicos. No es una cura. Las personas que reciben inyecciones de bótox para los dolores de cabeza suelen recibir el tratamiento aproximadamente cada tres meses.
ASU business professor says cyber adversaries will look to midterm elections to stir the pot with voters, with most of the hyperbolic chatter coming from malicious bots spreading racism and hate on social media and in the comments section on news sites.
In recognition of National Healthy Skin Month in November, board-certified dermatologists are providing their top tips for caring for your skin, hair, and nails.
Richard W. Garnett is the University of Notre Dame’s Paul J. Schierl/Fort Howard Corporation Professor of Law, director of the Law School’s Program on Church, State & Society and a concurrent professor of political science. Garnett discusses the future of the Supreme Court.
Six surgeons directly involved in caring for injured patients during the war in Ukraine shared their experiences Wednesday, October 19, during the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress 2022 in San Diego.
Arizona State University faculty member Debra Radway discusses how inflation will play a role in consumer spending and how families can prepare for this holiday season and beyond.
Quando falamos em AVCs, cada segundo é importante. Especialistas da Mayo Clinic explicam como reconhecer os sinais de um AVC e como reduzir o seu risco. “Dizemos com frequência que o ‘tempo é valioso para o cérebro,’ o que significa que, quanto mais rápido for restabelecido o fluxo sanguíneo para ele, melhores serão os resultados para o paciente,” afirma o Dr. James Meschia, neurologista da Mayo Clinic, na Flórida.
مدينة روتشستر، ولاية مينيسوتا. — كل ثانية مهمة عند الحديث عن السكتات الدماغية. حيث يشرح أحد خبراء مايو كلينك كيفية التعرف على مؤشرات السَّكتة الدماغية وكيفية التقليل من مخاطر حدوثها.
"نحن نقول دائمًا إن (الوقت من ذهب)، أي أنه كلما أسرعنا في استعادة تدفق الدم إلى الدماغ، صارت النتائج أفضل بالنسبة للمريض" - كما يقول جيمس ميسكيا، دكتور الطب، طبيب الأعصاب في مايو كلينك في فلوريدا.
Cuando se trata de accidentes cerebrovasculares , cada segundo cuenta. Los expertos de Mayo Clinic explican cómo reconocer los signos de un accidente cerebrovascular y cómo reducir el riesgo de que se produzcan. "A menudo decimos 'el tiempo es cerebro' para referirnos a que cuanto antes podamos restaurar el flujo de sangre al cerebro, mejores serán los resultados para el paciente," dice el Dr. James Meschia, neurólogo de Mayo Clinic en Florida .
Although breast cancer is more common in women, during October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, experts from Cedars-Sinai Cancer are reminding men that they are at risk as well. One in every 100 breast cancers in the U.S. is diagnosed in a man, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A team at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles recently became the first in the world to use a novel, basket-shaped retrieval device to successfully remove a large right atrial thrombus (blood clot).
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage - Latin American Heritage Month, 5 QSA-affiliated scientists described how they pivoted to quantum information science (QIS) and technology, and why they're excited about the opportunities for scientific discovery. Featuring Ana Maria Rey, Pablo Poggi, Sergio Cantu, Elmer Guardado Sanchez, and Diego Barberena.
QSA (Quantum Systems Accelerator) is a National QIS Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Berkeley Lab leads QSA with Sandia National Laboratories as the lead partner. QSA is composed of 15 member institutions in the United States and Canada.
Cedars-Sinai physicians and scientists will share the results of new research aimed at improving the treatment of digestive diseases during the international meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG). The clinical conference will take place Oct. 21-26 in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is available for virtual and in-person attendance.
The annual influenza (flu) season — which typically lasts from October to April in the United States — is upon us. Johns Hopkins Medicine experts will be available throughout the 2022–23 season for interviews about this year’s flu virus and flu vaccine, as well as other respiratory illnesses, such as COVID-19 and monkeypox.
Researchers at the University of Washington developed UnlockedMaps, a web-based map that allows users to see in real time how accessible rail transit stations are in six metro areas: Philadelphia, Chicago, Seattle, Toronto, New York and the California Bay Area. UnlockedMaps shows which stations are accessible and which ones are experiencing elevator outages.
Some children aged 7 years and younger may benefit from screening for anxiety in primary care, according to an editorial published in JAMA by John Walkup, MD, Chair of Pritzker Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, and colleagues. The authors respond to the US Preventive Services Task Force recommendation that children be screened for anxiety at 8-18 years of age.
Receiving a medical diagnosis can be difficult. You may only hear parts of the conversation as you start to think about what treatment will be needed and how this will affect your daily life. It can be especially challenging when different diseases have names that sound similar, such as inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD, and irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS. Daisy Batista, M.D., a gastroenterologist at Mayo Clinic Health System-La Crosse, explains the difference between the two diseases.
Receber um diagnóstico médico pode ser difícil. Você pode ouvir apenas partes da conversa quando começa a pensar sobre qual tratamento será necessário e como isso afetará a sua rotina diária. E pode ser especialmente desafiador quando doenças diferentes têm nomes parecidos, como a doença inflamatória intestinal (ou DII) e a síndrome do intestino irritável (ou SII). A Dra. Daisy Batista, M.D., gastroenterologista do Sistema de Saúde da Mayo Clinic em La Crosse, explica a diferença entre as duas doenças.
ecibir un diagnóstico médico puede ser difícil, porque el paciente escucha solo partes de la conversación mientras empieza a pensar en el tratamiento que será necesario y cómo este afectará su vida diaria. Esto puede ser aún más complejo en el caso de enfermedades que tienen nombres muy similares, como es el caso de la enfermedad inflamatoria intestinal y el síndrome de colon irritable. La Dra.Daisy Batista, gastroenteróloga del Sistema de Salud de Mayo Clinic en La Crosse, explica la diferencia entre estas dos enfermedades.
The halting, confusing response to COVID-19 in the U.S. resulted from decisions by President Donald Trump and his allies to politicize the pandemic by associating it with his own fate in office, according to a new book by a Cornell author.
It’s that time of year: costumes, candy and trick-or-treating. As families celebrate this season, Johns Hopkins Children’s Center experts are available for interviews on a variety of tips to help ensure a safe and fun Halloween.
Cedars-Sinai Orthopaedic Trauma experts will present their latest advances in treatments and research at the annual meeting of the Orthopaedic Trauma Association (OTA) in Florida Oct. 12-15.